doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 1 Broadcast Probe Response in TGai Date: Authors: NameAffiliationsAddressPhone Phillip BarberHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd Alma Rd, Ste 500 Plano, Texas USA Guorui Yang Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd Bldg C8, Software Park, Road Tianfu 801, Gaoxin District, Chenfdu, Sichuan, China, Zongming Yao Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Bldg C8, Software Park, Road Tianfu 801, Gaoxin District, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 2 Abstract This document describes a technical proposal for TGai. In this proposal, a method of broadcasting the probe response frame is provided to share BSS information between STAs for FILS stage.

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 3 Conformance w/ Tgai PAR & 5C Conformance QuestionResponse Does the proposal degrade the security offered by Robust Security Network Association (RSNA) already defined in ? No Does the proposal change the MAC SAP interface?No Does the proposal require or introduce a change to the architecture?No Does the proposal introduce a change in the channel access mechanism?No Does the proposal introduce a change in the PHY?No Which of the following link set-up phases is addressed by the proposal? (1) AP Discovery (2) Network Discovery (3) Link (re-)establishment / exchange of security related messages (4) Higher layer aspects, e.g. IP address assignment 1

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 4 State of the Art Active Scanning Scan through all available channels. STA  “shall transmit Probe request frames containing the desired SSID or one or more SSID List elements. ” [11REVmb-D11, Cls ] AP  “ Probe Response frames shall be sent as directed frames to the address of the STA that generated the probe request. ” [11REVmb-D11, Cls ] STA  “process all received probe responses.” [11REVmb-D11, Cls ]

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 5 State of the Art Passive Scanning Scan through all available channels STA “shall scan for Beacon frames containing that ESS’s SSID, returning all Beacon frames matching the desired SSID in the BSSDescriptionSet parameter of the corresponding MLME-SCAN.confirm primitive with the appropriate bits in the Capabilities Information field indicating whether the Beacon frame came from an infrastructure BSS or IBSS.”[11REVmb- D11, Cls ]

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 6 Beacon vs Probe response frame Same and difference ： — STA can detect the AP through beacon frame and probe response frame. — There are 53 info element common to both in frame types; only 3 info elements different; total of info element is 56. [11REVmb-D11] Beacon （ order ： 56 ） Probe response （ order ： 56 ） 【 10 】 Traffic indication map (TIM) The TIM element is present only within Beacon frames generated by APs or mesh STAs. 【 41 】 Channel Usage The Channel Usage element is present if the Channel Usage element is present in the Probe Request frame and dot11MgmtOptionChannelUsageAc tivated is true. 【 24 】 QoS Capability The QoS Capability element is present if dot11QosOption- Imple-mented is true, and dot11MeshActivated is false, and EDCA Parameter Set element is not present. 【 43 】 Time Zone The Time Zone element is present if dot11MgmtOptionUTCTSFOffsetA ctivated is true. 【 42 】 FMS Descriptor The FMS Descriptor element is present if dot11MgmtOptionFMSActivated is true. 【 Last–n 】 Requested elements Elements requested by the Request element of the Probe Request frame are present if dot11MultiDomainCapabilityActiva ted is true. See

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 7 Main idea: sharing the probe response Share the Probe response frame  non-AP STA indicates in the probe request to the AP to broadcast the probe response. For STA in active mode, use the probe request to indicate to the AP to broadcast the probe response frame. This way, other STAs can also obtain the broadcasted probe response frame, thus potentially avoiding duplicate probe events from other STAs; potentially shortening AP discovery. For STA in passive mode, scan for both the set of broadcasted probe response and the beacon frame; similar benefit as above for STA in active mode.

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 8 Main idea: sharing the probe response Active scanning and Passive scanning

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 9 Part of probe requests could be saved and collision could be reduced. STA can find more APs in a shorter time. STA need not transmit the ACK frame to confirm successful receipt of the probe response frame because of broadcast. So occupied air time could be reduced. And also …

doc.: IEEE / ai Submission Nov 2011 Huawei Technologies Co. LtdSlide 10 References IEEE REVmb-D11